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[[Category:New Reviews|Sport]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave RobertsHurst_Norfolk|title=Home and AwayOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst

|genre=SportArt|summary= For most football fansIt was pure serendipity: after a five-hour drive, we were, non-league clubs (that isannoyingly, teams who play outside left with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the top four divisions of English football) are like a distant relative fallen on hard times; you're vaguely aware of their existence but have no particular wish keys to visit themour holiday cottage. Apart from a few weeks There was an art exhibition in early Januarythe church hall, when the odd nonso we went in -league club reaches the third round of the FA cup and embarks on found a spot display of giant killing, the lower leagues receive almost no attention outside their small groups of devoted supportersmost gorgeous pictures. So what I's it like d cheerfully have bought every one and hung them on our walls, but thought that I would have to support a non-league team? Enter Dave Roberts, make do with a fan couple of Bromley FC who are currently plying their trade in the Vanarama National League – the fifth tier of English football. In Home greetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'' and Away, Dave documents the highs and lows of travelling the country watching Bromley during the 2015/2016 seasonI couldn't resist buying it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>059307680X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher McGrathIgnotofsky_Sport|title=Mr Darley's ArabianWomen in Sport: High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: A History of Racing in 25 HorsesFifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win|author=Rachel Ignotofsky

|summary=Football ''Women in Sport'' is known as the beautiful game and when I was younger I kind of believed this. I would spend my free time playing Heads and Volleys with my mates and then go home coming to try and complete my Panini sticker album. There was even us just before the halcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won the title. As I have grown older, my cynicism has grown tooWinter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. Leicester may be champions, but the day I feel that It celebrates a group of multimillionaires beating century and a group half of slightly richer multimillionaires is a win for the everymandevelopment of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, will be a sad onecovering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. Perhaps the love Think of football still burns bright a sport and a pioneering woman succeeding at it is probably in the youth of today? ''Top Of the League'' certainly hopes so as it this book somewhere. Each entry is full of facts a double-page spread with a brief biography and figures all about the ball they call foota striking portrait.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784934577</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia BradburyBurrell_12|title=Unforgettable WalksTwelve Times To The Max: One Man's Journey to, and Recollections of, Setting Twelve Verified World Records|author=Stuart Burrell

|genre=TravelSport|summary=I've long been a fan The first of Julia BradburyStuart Burrell's walking programmes on television - I credit her with sparking my own interest in walking - so world records, well, the news that there would shortly be another series of programmes ''and'first two, actually, as he' s not a book man to accompany the series was music to my earsdo things by halves, came about by accident. This time she's looking at Britain's best walks with There had been a view plan to raise some money for the Children in Need Charity and she roams through Dorset, quite late on the Cotswolds, Anglesey, people who were to have been the Yorkshire Dales, the Lakes, Cumbria, the South Downs main attraction got a better offer and the Peak DistrictBurrell is not a man to let people down. Unless you're What could be done to bring people in Scotland there's something reasonably close to just about everyoneand raise some money? Most of us would have thought of jumble sales and cake bakes, with but Burrell had made a good spread around all points hobby of escapology and idea of a sponsored escape had life breathed into it. On 3 November 2002, he went for the compassFastest Handcuff Escape world record and immediately afterwards Most Handcuffs Escaped in One Hour. Both were successful and more than £300 was raised for Children in Need.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784298840</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Guy MartinLandreth_Swell|title= When You Dead, You DeadSwell |author=Jenny Landreth|rating= 4.5|genre= AutobiographySport|summary= ItI love Jenny's own description of her book as a little depressing when waterbiography and I love her encouragement that we should each write our own. This is more than just (I say ''just''!) a 34 year old is publishing his second autobiography, but thatrecollection of the author's own encounters with water; it's what this book is, and Martin proves healso a history of women's certainly not short on materialfight for the right to swim. The author That sounds absurd until you start reading about it, for those then it becomes serious. Not too serious though – because Jenny Landreth is clearly a lover of the absurd. Not a lover of you who don't knowbook blurbs myself, is I do always seek to give a mechanic shout-out to those who dabbles get it dead right: in TV presenting and motorcycle racingthis case, though itI'm definitely with Alexandra Heminsley's ''giggles-on-the latter for which we he will be most well-knowncommute funny''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753556669</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A P McCoyOakeshott_Derby|title=A Guide to the Classics: Or How to Pick the Derby Winner: My Racing Life|author=Guy Griffith and Michael Oakeshott

|summary=Mere mortals relax by having a game of footy of a weekend and It's not often that you get a couple of drinks, but what does a professional sportsman do to cut loose? What do they do when they go out en masse? Investigative journalist Anna Krien looks at a rape trial of an Australian Rules footballer, just glimpse into his twenties and follows the case as it goes to courtpersonal, interviewing some youthful interests of one of those directly or indirectly involved and digressing into related areas. In deference to the fact that greatest Conservative philosophers of the woman had automatic anonymity shetwentieth century, but ''s chosen A Guide to give the man who was charged the name of Classics'Justin' in an attempt co-authored by Michael Oakeshott is a light-hearted look at how to level pick the playing fieldDerby winner. Originally written in 1936 it is, so to speakamazingly, as relevant today as it was then. You could Google In fact, the facts techniques and come up with analysis employed by the correct name, but this isn't a book authors were way ahead of gossip about particular people. It's an investigation of a culture which has increasingly treated women as sexual commoditiestheir time and have only come into general use relatively recently.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224100033</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeff ScottGibbons_Game|title=Born to RumbleThe Beautiful Game|author=Alan Gibbons

|summary=''Rumble''Football is all about its colours. It's an odd word, isn't it, with that sense of a noise like thunder (or And even of a motorcycle engine) ''and'' of a street fight between rival gangs. Author Jeff Scott has picked if I write in the perfect title for his journey around various speedway venues looking at those occasions season when one team in blue knocks another team in blue from the combination throne of brakeless bikesEnglish football, adrenalin, ridiculous speeds and not a lot of space explode into confrontation on or off it's common knowledge that red is the trackmore successful colour to wear. It's hardly surprising But is that flame red? Blood red? The red of the Sun cover banner when it happens - falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in fact it's surprising a tragedy – and that it doesnhad been one of their own making? And while we't happen more often given re on about colour, where were the competitive nature people of colour in football in the sport and olden days? There are so many darker sides to football's history it's enough to make a young lad question the diva-like qualities of some of the top riders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956861849</amazonuk>whole game…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Red SzellAskwith_Today|title=The Blind Man of HoyToday We Die a Little: A True Story|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Redmond Széll was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) at age 19. It's now 26 years since he got the life-changing news. Although not completely sightless – he sees shadows and shapes – he is registered blind and walks with the stereotypical white stick. This hasn't stopped him from pursuing his hobby of rock-climbing, though, both indoors on climbing walls and on Britain's cliffs. The culmination of his climbing obsession came in 2013Emil Zatopek, when he became the first blind person Olympic Legend to climb the Old Man of Hoy, the 449-foot cliff off the Orkney Islands of Scotland.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124222</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCold War Hero|author=Jeff Scott and Rachael Adams|title=Strictly Shale: Circling British SpeedwayRichard Askwith|rating=4.5

|summary=When As a runner myself, I was young often look for sources of inspiration. Training is rewarding, but every so often a day comes along when I remember Speedway being a regular item on Saturday sport programmes on televisionquestion whether it is all worth it or not. My father was an aficionado and loved the noiseZatopek proves that is, indeed, the risk and the sheer energy all worth it. He put copious amounts of the sport - my mother less so effort into his training, and she quoted the noise and the strong possibility number of there being 'races he won over his career as a nasty accident' when professional athlete clearly shows the riders slid their motorcycles sideways. It is still on television but I'll confess to not having watched for many years and results of it was for this reason that Jeff Scott's ''Strictly Shale'' achieved the unusual feat of both being an eye opener and bringing back long-forgotten memories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956861830</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Palmer|titleisbn=Over The Line|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Jack Cock made his debut as a professional footballer for Huddersfield Town and that fragile dream of playing for his country came just a little bit closer, but this was just before the beginning of the First World War, when there was immense pressure on young men to do the honourable thing and join the war to fight in France. ''Over the Line'' is the story of Jack's war, of joining the Footballers' Battalion, playing in the Flanders Cup, fighting in the trenches and not just surviving but being decorated for bravery. After the war he scored England's first international goal and was one of the first of the modern generation of 'professional footballers'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123934</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPavey_Mum|title=Slow Getting UpThis Mum Runs|author=Nate JacksonJo Pavey

|summary=The fly leaf suggests that this Bluffer's Guide is the way to instantly acquire all the knowledge which you need to pass as an expert in the ''arcane and labyrinthine'' world I am something of golf. There's quite a bit there that self-confessed running addict: I'd agree on - think nothing of hitting the rules (roads for 50 miles a week, and spend much of my time searching for races to an unfortunate extent run all over the ''attitudes'') are arcane and they seem to take country. That is, until I wound up with a lifetime to masterpersistent sports injury, but there's hung up my running shoes for nearly a surprising amount of information tucked away inside this little bookyear, and switched the road to the pool. What At the time I might quibble with is whether or thought nothing could alleviate the misery of not you would being able to run; but now I wish I had had Jo Pavey's autobiography, 'pass as an expert'This Mum Runs' (which suggests that you're something , to keep me company because the elite athlete’s account of the Olympics, injury, family, and life, in general, falls nothing short of a con man): there's enough detail here to give you a solid grounding without needing to bluffinspirational.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909365327</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=The Boys In The Boat: An Epic Journey to the Heart of Hitler's Berlin|author=Daniel James Brown|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summaryisbn=You see, Jesse Owens had it easy – all he had to do was run fast. Alright, he did have to face unknown hardship, heinous prejudice at home and abroad, and make sure he was fast enough to outdo the rest of his compatriots then the world's best to win gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, but others who wished to do the same had to do more. People such as those rowers in the coxed eights squad – people such as young Joe Rantz. He certainly had to face hardship, the prejudice borne by those in the moneyed east coast yacht clubs against an upstart from the NW USA, and when he got to compete he had to use so many more muscles, and operate at varying tempi, with the temperament of the weather and water against him, all in perfect synchronicity with seven other beefcakes. Despite rowing being the second greatest ticket at those Games, Joe's story is a lot less well known, and probably a lot more entertaining.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447210980</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewLee_Lean|title=Running Like A GirlLean Gains|author=Alexandra HeminsleyJonathan S Lee|rating=54

|summary=Running is awfulI don't often begin a book by telling you what it ''isn't'' but in this case I think it's important. So starts Heminsley If you's re a fairly sedentary person or a casual sportsman or woman looking to shed a few pounds then you won't get the best out of this book . You'll find some good advice about runningdiet but I'm afraid that much of it is going to go over your head. Of course you could always take up a sport seriously. And she.. On the other hand, if you 's not wrong'are'' a serious sportsman then you could find that the advice in ''Lean Gains'' could lift you up to the next level of performance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099558955</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Long_Mock|title=Who Invented The Stepover? (And Other Crucial Football Conundrums)Mock Olympian|author=Paul Simpson and Uli HesseMichael Long

|summary=In 1982, second division Charlton Athletic staged It started with an unlikely transfer coup by signing former European Footballer idle conversation just before the 2012 London Olympics: Michael Long's friend Sarah gave him a book as part of his birthday present. It was Time Out's guide to the history of the Olympics and it covered each of the Year Allan Simonsensummer Olympics in chronological order from the inaugural games in Athens in 1896. If Sarah's boyfriend James commented that with all the thought running Michael did, he'd probably have run in most of the Danish superstar forsaking Olympic cities. Although Long had done a goodly number of runs, bike rides and triathlons he'd only competed in two of the glamour twenty-three cities - London and Athens. Now most of Barcelona for south east London seemed unlikely then consider us would have left it at that, but that Simonsen had previously faked his own death during 's not the Michael Long you're going to come to know and love. He saw it as a World Cup qualifierchallenge and what's more, he blogged about it and then wrote this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250065</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harry RedknappRoberts_Home|title=Harry: My AutobiographyHome and Away|author=Dave Roberts|rating=4.5

|summary=Everybody with an interest in For most football knows fans, non-league clubs (that is, teams who ''Harry'' is. The cover play outside the top four divisions of his book won't tell you who he is, but if English football) are like a distant relative fallen on hard times; you're not vaguely aware of their existence but have no particular wish to visit them. Apart from a few weeks in early January, when the know it's Harry Redknapp odd non- football manager league club reaches the third round of the FA cup and for many embarks on a spot of usgiant-killing, something the lower leagues receive almost no attention outside their small groups of a national treasuredevoted supporters. HeSo what's the manager who's seen it alllike to support a non-league team? Enter Dave Roberts, having started at rock bottom - a 70s Portakabin at Oxford City - and risen to the heights fan of managing Tottenham Hotspur Bromley FC who are currently plying their trade in the PremiershipVanarama National League – the fifth tier of English football. At the same time he was the popular choice for the England ManagerIn ''Home and Away's job when Capello threw in the towel. It's fair to say that Harry has lived his football life to , Dave documents the full highs and anyone buying this book will get their money's worthlows of travelling the country watching Bromley during the 2015/2016 season.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091917875</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim WhiteMcgrath_Darley|title=Premier LeagueMr Darley's Arabian: High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: A History of Racing in 10 Matches25 Horses|author=Christopher McGrath|rating=4.5

|summary=I go back to the days when the pinnacle All thoroughbred racehorses are descended from one of footballing achievement was just three stallions which came to be in Division 1England about three hundred years ago; The Byerley Turk, but the stadia The Darley Arabian and the stands were downmarketThe Godolphin Arabian. Standing - pushing, shoving and fighting - was The last century or so has seen a decline in the norm and it wasn't lines from the place for a family outing. You could get into a match for less than a fiver first and top footballers earned less than four times last of these stallions, to the average wage. All extent that changed in 1993 with the birth of the Premier League. This was the brainchild some 95% of all thoroughbreds worldwide - amongst others not just in England - [[:Category:Greg Dyke|Greg Dyke]] are descended from The Darley Arabian, which was originally bought in Aleppo from Bedouin tribesmen and shipped to Yorkshire in 1704, by Thomas Darley, who saw the potential for turning football at the highest level into a business. Twenty one years on the top footballers earn more than thirty five times the average wagedied, in difficult financial circumstances before he could follow his horse home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781854300</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Mills_Top|title=Twirlymen: Top Of The Unlikley History of Cricket's Greatest Spin BowlersLeague|author=Amol RajanAndrea Mills

|summary=Although they may lack Football is known as the bang beautiful game and bluster when I was younger I kind of believed this. I would spend my free time playing Heads and Volleys with my mates and then go home to try and complete my Panini sticker album. There was even the fast bowlershalcyon days when Blackburn Rovers won the title. As I have grown older, the three leading wicket takers of all time in Test cricket are all spinnersmy cynicism has grown too. They Leicester may look calmer in their run ups and actionbe champions, but the effect they put on day I feel that a group of multimillionaires beating a group of slightly richer multimillionaires is a win for the ball can everyman, will be incredible. Rather than blasting a batsman out, they bamboozle themsad one. That's why Amol Rajan thinks them deserving Perhaps the love of a book all football still burns bright in the youth of their own, and today? ''TwirlymenTop Of the League'' certainly hopes so as it is full of facts and figures all about the result of that beliefball they call foot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083252</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John D BarrowBradbury_Walks|title=Mathletics|rating=3.5|genre=Sport|summary=As a sports fan and a maths teacher, I was thrilled to get the chance to read a book which claims to give us 'surprising and enlightening insights into the world of sports'. This is rather a frustrating read because it seems to have got the balance wrong in many cases. There are some chapters which are so short as to be barely worth reading – one merely points out that while humans can’t run as fast as cheetahs or perform gymnastics as amazing as that of a monkey, we’re better all-rounders than any other animal. This is true, but hardly seems worth wasting a page on, it’s so obvious. Then there are other chapters, like the interesting one detailing the points scoring system in the decathlon, which are good but could have been much better given more space. The decathlon one is a prime example of this – it’s five pages, so one of the book’s longer sections, but could surely have been excellent if it had gone into more detail. I can’t help thinking that dropping half of the sections and doubling the other half in length might have been the way to go here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584239</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewUnforgettable Walks|author=Gavin Mortimer|title=A History of Cricket in 100 ObjectsJulia Bradbury

|summary=[[A History I've long been a fan of Football Julia Bradbury's walking programmes on television - I credit her with sparking my own interest in 100 Objects by Gavin Mortimer|A History walking - so the news that there would shortly be another series of Football in 100 Objects]] was programmes and a brave attempt, but book to accompany the series was slightly let down by being a little too clinicalmusic to my ears. Being This time she's looking at Britain's best walks with a game imbued with passionview and she roams through Dorset, the Cotswolds, Anglesey, the book lacked this which took some of Yorkshire Dales, the edge off it. CricketLakes, whilst inspiring passion amongst devoteesCumbria, has a slightly more laid back following; one that may work better the South Downs and the Peak District. Unless you're in this format. That saidScotland there's something reasonably close to just about everyone, being with a game that has been played for five centuries, narrowing it down to just 100 objects is no less an undertaking than for footballgood spread around all points of the compass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689406</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen RocheMartin_When|title=Born to Ride: The Autobiography of Stephen RocheWhen You Dead, You Dead|author=Guy Martin|rating=4.5

|summary=With all the revelations about the systemised doping culture surrounding Lance ArmstrongIt's team in the 1990s, it was interesting to read a story of little depressing when a time before cycling was embroiled in one drugs scandal after another. Although perhaps not as memorable as Armstrong34-year-old is publishing his second autobiography, but that's careerwhat this book is, Stephen Rocheand Martin proves he's will hold certainly not short on material. The author, for those of you who don't know, is a place mechanic who dabbles in cycling history TV presenting and motorcycle racing, though it's the latter for 1987, when which he became only the second man will be most well-known. As an F1 widow to win the Tour de Francea boy who likes all things fast, the Giro D'Italia I thought he might like this book and the World Championships in the same season. A quarter of a century after that remarkable featso, Roche has produced his autobiographyperhaps unusually, ''Born to Ride''I chose it with someone else in mind but made myself read it first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224091905</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin MortimerMccoy_Winner|title=Winner: My Racing Life|author=A History of Football in 100 ObjectsP McCoy

|summary=Given how long In any walk of life, there are people who are universally known by their first names alone. In flat racing, everyone knows who 'Frankie' is and in National Hunt, you need to say no more than 'A.P.' Legend is an over-used word but not when itcomes to the achievements of Tony 'A.P.' McCoy. He's been played champion jockey an unprecedented twenty times and how many books have been written about ithis career record of 4, any new history of football needs to have some kind of hook to make it stand out348 wins may never be beaten. Gavin Mortimer may have found In fact, it's tempting to say that, by presenting his history as it will ''A History of Football in 100 Objectsnever''be beaten. This prompts He's won the Grand National, the question as to whether Irish Grand National, two Cheltenham Gold Cups and won the whole of football could be reduced down to Champion Hurdle three times. Unusually for a mere century jockey, he's also been BBC Sports Personality of objectsthe Year. But then, if [[From 0 to Infinity in 26 Centuries He achieved all this by Chris Waring]] can make a history the age of maths worth reading, I guess anything is possibleforty one when he retired from racing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin KelnerKrien_Night|title=Sit Down and CheerNight Games: A History of Sport on TV|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=Like many English sports fans, the majority of the calories I burn are used up by shouting at the TV and occasionally going to the shops for more beer and crisps. Sports books tend Journey to be about the sport itself or biographies of those who expended great effort to reach the top of their chosen sport. But in Martin Kelner's 'Sit Down and Cheer: A History Dark Side of Sport on TV', there is finally a book for the less energetic among us.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140812923X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Clare Balding|title=My Animals and Other Family|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Clare Balding was born into a racing family - her father, Ian, was the trainer of Mill Reef who won the Derby in 1971, the same year that Clare was born. Whilst her father would never forget the year that his horse won the Derby he would usually fail to remember that it was also the year of his daughter's birth. Horses came first and they were the priority in Ian Balding's life: the family had to adjust accordingly. He was a gifted and successful trainer who understood the animals in his care and his record, including Mill Reef's Derby success speaks for itself. Clare's childhood was separate from the life of the racing stable but she inherited her family's love of animals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670921467</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Richard Fitzpatrick|title=El Clasico - Barcelona v Real Madrid: Football's Greatest RivalryAnna Krien

|summary=Nothing divides opinion quite like football Mere mortals relax by having a game of footy of a weekend and no-one expresses their joy a couple of drinks, but what does a professional sportsman do to cut loose? What do they do when they go out en masse? Investigative journalist Anna Krien looks at a rape trial of an Australian Rules footballer, just into his twenties and disappointment like football fansfollows the case as it goes to court, interviewing some of those directly or indirectly involved and digressing into related areas. For many fansIn deference to the fact that the woman had automatic anonymity, she's chosen to give the most important matches man who was charged the name of their entire season are 'Justin Dyer' in an attempt to level the ones against their local rivals; the derby matchesplaying field, so to speak. English football has a number of these, but only You could Google the matches between Barcelona facts and Real Madrid in Spain have elevated themselves above mere derby status and earned their own come up with the correct name: , but this isn't a book of gossip about particular people. It'El Clásico'' – the Classics an investigation of a culture which has increasingly treated women as sexual commodities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408158795</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Secret FootballerScott_Born|title=I Am The Secret Footballer: Lifting The Lid On The Beautiful Game|rating=4.5|genre=Sport|summary=In the 2012 Olympic Games the UK delighted in the skills shown by our athletes. We were - naturally - pleased by the medals, but what impressed was the training and dedication of people who were frequently fitting what they did around the day job or study. For the most part they weren't reaping much in the way of financial rewards from what they did - but they shone. The exceptions were the footballers. I forget (and that might well be Freudian) ''exactly'' who beat us, but I doubt that there are many people pleased by the show they made. It's now the beginning of the Premier League season and ''I Am the Secret Footballer'' has arrived at the perfect moment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852653085</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBorn to Rumble|author=Alan Tyers and Beach|title=I Kick Therefore I am: The Little Book of Premier League WisdomJeff Scott

|summary=You remember Ronnie Matthews, don't you? 'Rumble''. HeIt's the footballer who celebrated his one – and so faran odd word, only – international match by booing his way through the Faroe Islandsisn' national anthemt it, then getting with that sense of a red card for chatting up the lineswoman. He still thinks he contributed well to noise like thunder (or even of a vital friendly, however. Hemotorcycle engine) ''s the player whose career in piddling his way through continuously lesser and lesser clubs for far too long has only been matched in the recent game by Steve Claridge. And still he's bucking the trend – he's of a street fight between rival gangs. Author Jeff Scott has picked the only author smart enough to realise that four-hundred page, ghost-written biogs are unnecessary, perfect title for he's crammed all his life, career, philosophy and response to Twitter into an hour's read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408832763</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Leo McKinstry|title=Jack Hobbs: England's Greatest Cricketer|rating=5|genre=Sport|summary=Back in journey around various speedway venues looking at those occasions when the early 1920scombination of brakeless bikes, there were only three Test cricket playing nations; Englandadrenalin, Australia ridiculous speeds and South Africa. In the summer not a lot of 2012, both nations have been space explode into a confrontation on tour; Australia recently beaten comprehensively at one day cricket and South Africa about to start a test series to determine the best Test nation in or off the worldtrack. Given that history is repeating itself, it seems appropriate that a new biography of Jack Hobbs, EnglandIt's greatest run scorer and a man who repeatedly blunted the bowling attacks of both nations, should become available now.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083309</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Beth Raymer|title=Lay the Favourite: A True Story about Playing to Win in the Gambling Underworld|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=It was a dream which brought Beth Raymer to Las Vegas, but the reality was hardly surprising that she ended up waiting tables in a lowit happens -end diner and living in a distinctly unsavoury motel. A chance meeting brought her into contact with Dinkfact, the self-styled king of the cityit's sports betting and she moved into what was very much a man's world - of high-stakes gambling and a lot of people you wouldnsurprising that it doesn't necessarily want your daughter to know. This is happen more often given the story competitive nature of how Beth learned the trade sport and moved into the world diva-like qualities of some of the big money where gambling regulations don't apply. Being sharp was what it was all abouttop riders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555395</amazonuk>